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UK, allies point to Russia in ex-spy poisoning

LONDON: Britain will hold new emergency talks on Tuesday into the brazen nerve agent poisoning of a Russian former double agent on its soil, after the US and NATO backed London in implicating Moscow in the assassination attempt. As diplomatic tensions soar, Russia has denied accusations of its involvement in the attack on Sergei Skripal and his daughter in southwest England on March 4. British Prime Minister Theresa May told parliament it was “highly likely” Moscow was behind the poisoning, giving Russia until the end of Tuesday to answer the accusations, in comments that have stoked speculation Britain could call on its allies to mount a joint response. Both the United States and NATO issued statements in support of London, as concern mounts over the use of what May described as a military-grade nerve agent developed by Russia. Skripal, 66, and his daughter Yulia, 33, remain in a critical condition in hospital after being found unconscious on a bench outside a shopping center in Salisbury. Emergency workers in biohazard suits have been deployed in the normally sleepy city, while some 500 people who may have come into minimal contact with the nerve agent were urged to wash clothes and belongings as a precaution. US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said Washington has “full confidence” in the British investigation, adding that it was “almost beyond comprehension” that a state would use such a dangerous substance on public streets. “We agree that those responsible—both those who committed the crime and those who… [Read full story]

Saturday, March 17, 2018 by: Jessica Dolores Tags: cancer, Emotions, failures, Fear, healing, healthy habits positive thinking, Hope, hopeful, messages of hope, optimism, optimistic, success (Natural News) The saying that hope springs eternal is a paean to positive thinking. The idea that things will work out well, no matter how gloomy everything seems to be, has made champions out of losers; billionaires out of college dropouts. It’s the magic ingredient that kept Thomas Edison going until he finally invented the light bulb after 1,001 attempts to get things right. Walt Disney never lost hope in building his animation empire even…... [Read more]

LONDON - Western allies voiced support for Britain late Monday, after Prime Minister Theresa May said it was "highly likely" that Moscow was responsible for a nerve agent attack on a Russian former double agent. Police, with the assistance of Britain's armed forces and its military research laboratory at Porton Down, have been investigating the dramatic events for over a week In its first public comments on the case, the United States said it had "full confidence" in the British investigation and its assessment that Russia was probably behind the attempted assassination of Sergei Skripal and his daughter in southwest…... [Read more]

It’s not implausible that Liberal MP Irwin Cotler was, as he suggested, poisoned in Russia in 2006 when he suddenly began vomiting blood after a restaurant dinner. There is no atrocity, personal or national, that seems beyond Vladimir Putin and his “made men,” and no pain inflicted on Russian Federation citizens that they hadn’t seen under communism in its pure form. What is Russia now? Guardian journalist Luke Harding, quoting WikiLeaks cables, says that since Putin, a KGB man to his core, became president in 2000, it has become “a brutal, autocratic kleptocracy . . . in which officials, oligarchs…... [Read more]

Swiss scientists have concluded that Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat probably died from polonium poisoning, according to a text of their findings published by Al-Jazeera television on Wednesday. The results of tests on Arafat’s remains “moderately support the proposition that the death was the consequence of poisoning with polonium-210,” said the 108-page analysis posted on the Qatar-based satellite broadcaster’s website. Arafat died in France on November 11, 2004 at the age of 75, but doctors were unable to specify the cause of death. No autopsy was carried out at the time, in line with his widow’s request. His remains were exhumed…... [Read more]

UNITED NATIONS, United States: Lithuania, which looked to Britain to help toughen the European Union line on Russia, said on Monday (Tuesday in Manila) it wanted the EU to preserve all that it could from its ties with London after the “Brexit” vote. “We would like to preserve what is not yet destroyed, what is possible to preserve,” Lithuanian Foreign Minister Linas Linkevicius told reporters at the United Nations. The foreign minister said while there was a need for “clarity” after Britain’s vote to leave, Lithuania, for one, was not “rushing to expel Britain.” France and Italy have urged Britain…... [Read more]